White Chocolate is a White, Yellow & Scopas Tang All In One

Casper the white tang might be the most famous surgeonfish in the world but World Wide Corals has been conditioning a new superstar in their stable of awesome tangs. A little over a year ago WWC added two piebald Zebrasoma, with the exquisiteBumble Bee and School Bus, both mostly yellow scopas tangs. But if there’s one tang which matches casper’s splendid appearance it has to be White Chocolate.

Believe it or not, the two fish in this picture are the same species, but obviously White Chocolate is a little bit more special.

White Chocolate is an aberrant scopas tang from Java Indonesia with a very high degree of both white, yellow, and normal scopas coloration. The way in which these colors are distributed is wildly contrasting and certainly one of the highest quality ‘Tricolor Tangs‘ as they are called in the UK.

Just as Casper is the main fish feature of World Wide’s show reef tank in the front of their retail store, White Chocolate is the fishy highlight of their masterpiece 900 gallon reef tank. Together with a school of yellow tangs, a scopas tang, and several other surgeonfish White Chocolate is really a sight to behold and we look forward to documenting this iconic fish through the years as we have with Casper the White Tang.

Jake Adams has been an avid marine aquarist since the mid 90s and has worked in the retail side of the marine aquarium trade for more than ten years. He has a bachelor’s degree in Marine Science and has been the managing editor of ReefBuilders.com since 2008. Jake is interested in every facet of the marine aquarium hobby from the concepts to the technology, rare fish to exotic corals, and his interests are well documented through a very prolific career of speaking to reef clubs and marine aquarium events, and writing articles for aquarium publications across the globe. His primary interest is in corals which Jake pursues in the aquarium hobby as well as diving the coral reefs of the world.